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1 Karol Wojtyla, Love and Responsibility, trans. H. Willetts (New York: Farrar,
Straus, Giroux, 1981), p. 41. This is Wojtyla’s famous “personalistic norm.”
2 A baby, pre-born or born, does not, of course, have the developed capacity for
deliberating and choosing freely, but he has the natural or radical capacity to
do so because he is human and personal in nature.
3 Vatican Council II, Declaration on Religious Liberty Dignitatis humanae, n. 3.
4 Ibid.
5 Vatican Council II, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern
World Gaudium et spes, n. 16; emphasis added.
6
Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, The Acting Person, trans. A. Potocki
(Dordrecht/Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1979), pp. 198-199.
7 Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Veritatis splendor, n. 7.
8 Ibid., n. 71.
9 Ibid. n. 65. See n. 71, where the Pope cites a remarkable passage from St.
Gregory of Nyssa’s De Vita Moysis where he says “we are in a certain way our
own parents, creating ourselves as we will, by our decisions.”
10 Germain Grisez, The Way of the Lord Jesus, Vol. 1, Christian Moral Principles
(Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1983), p. 59.
11 See St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, 1-2, q. 94, a. 2; see also Germain
Grisez, “The First Principle of Practical Reason: A Commentary on the Summa
Theologiae, 1-2, Question 94, Article 2,” Natural Law Forum 10 (1965) 168-
201; see also Grisez, Christian Moral Principles, pp. 178-182.
12 See St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, 1-2, q. 94, a. 2. See a. 3 of the
same question for the good of practical reasonableness.
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